#nick o'connor

[greensparty]

Remembering Shane MacGowan 1957-2023

Irish singer Shane MacGowan has died at 65. He co-founded The Pogues in 1982. After getting kicked out in 1991, he re-joined in 2001 and was with them until their end in 2014. He also had Shane MacGowan and The Popes, as well as solo work and collaborations with Nick Cave, Sinead O'Connor, and Dropkick Murphys.

The Pogues and Kristy MacColl's 1987 song "Fairytale in New York" is a holiday song I listen to every year as it's on multiple compilation albums. It was even featured in last year's Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. I named The Pogues one of my Honorable Mentions for Best Irish Rockers of All-Time.

The link above is a list from Rolling Stone of his 15 essential songs with embedded videos.

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

Round 2 Group A Match 2

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Sinead O'Connor:

"she is so gorgeous COME ON. and her VOICE????? HER VOICE??? i want her to sing me to sleep. i want to hold her hand and frolic in a field of flowers with her. absolutely my gay awakening. if she told me to eat roadkill id do it."

"She makes me want to shave my head until I remember I'm not as hot as her and probably couldn't pull it off as well."

"Remember when she ripped up a picture of the Pope on live TV? Nothing hotter than a woman willing to stand up for what is right even at the risk of her own career. Also she's just stunning, have you seen those eyes?"

Blixa Bargeld:

"Blixa, especially in person, is just… otherworldly. Ethereal. The way their physical body has changed so much while remaining Exactly The Same is just. Nick Cave is right. It’s hard to imagine Blixa having human parents. I think it was Christiane F. who called Blixa “a beauty queen from another planet”? She was right. That’s Blixa. We stan a nonbinary queen."

"Blixa's just objectively attractive: cheekbones, long legs, a sense of humor. And all that early days bondage gear. Blixa's both the sexy sidekick guitarist (Bad Seeds) and the moaning and screaming lead singer (Neubauten): what about that, peggability algorithm?! Blixa sweeps! Wim Wenders straight up calls Blixa a legend in the DVD commentary for Wings of Desire. That's validation, baby! Vote Blixa!"

"he has such pretty hair in the 90s! he's just very beautiful and i want his gender"

[moodboardmix]

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023)

Shane was a British-born Irish singer-songwriter and musician best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of Celtic punk band the Pogues.

He also produced solo material and collaborated with artists including Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Steve Earle, Sinéad O'Connor, Ronnie Drew, and Cruachan. 

Frequently noted for his exceptional songwriting ability as well as his heavy alcohol and drug use, MacGowan was described by The New York Times as "a titanically destructive personality and a master songsmith whose lyrics painted vivid portraits of the underbelly of Irish immigrant life.”

Rest in Power.

The band and Shane’s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke, back campaign to finally try and get The Pogues Christmas classic ‘Fairytale of New York’ to number one.

The 7” single is available to pre-order now and All profits from vinyl sales to benefit Dublin Simon Community - a charity loved and supported by Shane and Victoria.

For more details visit www.dubsimon.ie

Charity Number CHY 5963

The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)

[nirbanox]

Warrior (2011)

Directed by Gavin O'Connor

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Sinéad O'Connor by Nick Wall at Glastonbury Festival, 1992.

[motownfiction]

cleats

Will can’t stop staring at Crosby’s cleats.

He knows how that sounds, and he wishes he could stop doing it. But the harder he tries to look away, the easier it is to keep staring. Except it’s not just staring. It’s outright gawking.

It’s embarrassing, especially considering he’s quite sure Crosby’s taken some notice. He’s the kind of guy who can always feel eyes on him. Most of the time, girls stare at him. It’s not usually other guys, and it’s definitely not usually Will O’Connor. But today, he just can’t stop staring at his cleats.

There’s nothing weird or wrong about the cleats. At least, that’s what Will has to assume. He’s never played sports beyond gym class or a few passes with his dad in the backyard, but he’s pretty sure he’d notice if someone’s cleats were fucked up. Crosby’s look normal. Used to hell and back, of course, but normal. And that’s what pisses Will off the most.

How easy is it for a guy like Crosby to just be normal?

How easy is it for him to wake up and choose the normal thing everyday? The average thing? He wears plain, solid-colored ties to school, does his homework but never takes any creative risks with it (lest he get below a perfect score), dates popular girls, and plays sports that require cleats. He’s so cool, he needs a special shoe to show it to the world.

Because that’s what cleats do for a guy, especially a guy at St. Catherine’s. When you wear cleats, you’re not just a student. You’re a prize athlete – the kind of guy who’s going to bring in a trophy (and, with it, new students, because parents want to pay tuition dollars for a school full of winners). People respect you when you’re normal enough to like sports, to play them, to excel at them.

Crosby’s the right kind of sixteen. He goes to parties in his friends’ basements, but he makes out there, gets drunk there, plays a sloppy game of pool there. He’s not like Will, who stays up late to watch Saturday Night Live with Sam and Daniel (more Sam now that Daniel’s almost as cool and normal as Crosby). The right kind of sixteen doesn’t stay home on a Saturday night to watch a show that may or may not be funny. The right kind of sixteen already has a favorite beer and impresses girls with his beat-up cleats.

Will is the wrong kind of sixteen. His shoes are wrong, his music is wrong, his arrant lack of romantic or sexual life is wrong. He’s an abject failure in Chuck Taylors. Forget the cleats.

Crosby looks up at him as if to ask what his problem is. But the look on Will’s face must be too pitiful for a fight. Crosby just shakes his head like he understands. He’d stare at himself, too, if he were a loser like that.

Maybe Will’s projecting. And in a way, he knows he is.

It does not stop feeling like the real thing.

(part of @nosebleedclub july challenge -- day ii!)

[midnightswithdearkatytspb]

In This Heart Mix Tape: Side A 

Two souls, forever bound in the multiverse. (Tommy Shelby x OFC! Estella Holland)

In This Heart by Sinéad O’Connor 

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Sparkling Diamonds - From “Moulin Rouge” by Nicole Kidman

Work Song by Hozier

Why Don’t You Do Right? by Amy Irving and Charles Fleischer

One Day I’ll Fly Away - Acoustic by Vaults

I Wanna Be Loved By You by Annette Hanshaw

Merrily Kissed The Quaker by Planxty

Cheek To Cheek by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine

Morrison’s Jig by Orthodox Celts

He Moved Through the Fair by Sinéad O’Connor

Swan Upon Leda by Hozier

An Irish Party in Third Class by Gaelic Storm

Brigg Fair by Jackie Oates 

The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Dead Can Dance

Return to Me by October Project

I Know You Know Me by Caroline Spence and Matt Berninger

Never Let Me Go by Florence + The Machine

I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger by Joe Slovick

Nostalgia - Wallander Version by Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo

The Only Exception by Paramore

Take Me to Church by Hozier

Queen Of Peace by Florence + The Machine

[carnivalehbo]

[thepeculiarbird]

I'm at a point where I don't even care anymore of what people thinks . Yes , my lock screen is enorace , my home screen is Nick and Charlie and my screen where I write is Wilmon ! And you know what ? If someone tells me i'm obsessed with gay ships , I would just agree with them because that's the case , I love Enoch×Horace , Charlie×Nick and Wilhelm×Simon (and more) !

Also , I watched young royals two days ago and it's a masterpiece ! Want to know how to cry,laugh and melt in the inside at the same time ? Watch Young royals ! The end of each episode is crazy 💀 !!! I want to watch the third season NOW !!!

And don't even get me started on Heartstopper , there's too much to tell ! ♾/5 ! Don't know why I didn't buy them earlier !! I see them every day when I wake up and it makes me want to scream because it's just so so so cool and awesome and beautiful and I don't have the words to describe these books !

Alright , I'm done , I said (almost) everything I wanted to say ! Have a nice day !

[whilstiveputdownthisfic]

and more from Nick's IG stories on this day

Wednesday, July 26th, 2023; as of 4:46 p.m. DST

[hollywoodfamerp]

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[motownfiction]

high school accident

Will can’t believe he almost forgot about that time Daniel rear-ended Nick Crosby’s Mustang.

It was about twenty years ago now. Daniel had just gotten his driver’s license, and he took Will and Sam in his Bronco to grab a pizza on the way home from school one afternoon. Of course, Daniel was probably too short to drive a truck. When he backed out of his assigned parking spot, he backed right into Nick Crosby’s brand new cherry red Mustang. Will can still see the look on Crosby’s face when he got out of the car. He was even cherry redder than the car itself. He was screaming all sorts of obscenities that probably should have landed him in detention or even worse, but because he played on at least one sports team at St. Catherine’s, he got a pass for life. As he stood there in the parking lot, he shouted at Daniel about how it was cruel to damage a new Mustang, my new Mustang. After about five minutes of that, Sam got fed up. He rolled down the window and shouted, “Yeah, your new Mustang. Too bad it wasn’t an old one. Then maybe I’d almost feel sorry for you.”

Crosby lunged for the window at that, but Sam rolled it up too fast. All the while, Will was laughing like he’d never found anything else that funny before. And at sixteen, maybe he hadn’t. When Will was sixteen, he felt like every moment rolled into the next. There was no point in thinking about the ones before because they got you to the present. He used to be so good at moving forward; at staying in the present.

Now, though, he lives in choppy memories.

It has only been a few months since they buried Sam, and Will still thinks about him everyday. Every minute, really, is more like it. The thoughts always come out half formed (if that), but they’re always on his mind. Sometimes they’re fun, and sometimes, they’re like this: deceptively fun until they break his heart into a million stupid pieces.

He can’t believe the three of them were so dumb as to laugh at what happened that afternoon. They were really so ignorant as to think it was funny. Any one of them could have been much more hurt than they were, but they didn’t think of it that way. They were sixteen, and they didn’t know how. They were sixteen, and it was just a silly high school accident. They were sixteen, and they had no way of knowing that within the next two decades, one of them would die in a car wreck.

They didn’t know.

Would life have been better if they did? If Will could go back and warn himself that in less than twenty years, his best friend would be dead, would he do it? Would they still have been best friends? Or would Will have walked away out of fear – the fear that it was his fault, the fear that if he’d just stayed home instead of moving all the way to New York, the fear that if he’d just been a better friend, a more present friend, someone who showed up for all the holidays every year? He doesn’t want to know the answer to any of that. He just wants to know why they sat there in the parking lot and laughed.

He just wants to know how he can move on, knowing how terrible he was before. How awful.

Some days, he can forgive himself. He can forgive himself for having been a teenager, for having stayed in his apartment with Lucy and the girls on Christmas, for moving on.

Today is not one of those days.

Will turns on the TV and pretends not to hear the memories whispering to him.

(part of @nosebleedclub poetry month challenge -- day xxx!)

[digitaldiary000]

music artists with your moon sign

your moon sign is your deepest emotional self which is why we tend to relate to music made by artists with our moon sign <3

aries moon: rihanna, sufjan stevens, whitney houston, selena gomez, melanie martinez, janet jackson, tupac, stevie wonder, ross lynch (the driver era)

taurus moon: childish gambino, jim morrison, mick jagger, elton john, dominic fike, steve lacy, kevin parker (tame impala)

gemini moon: florence welch, billy corgan (smashing pumpkins), billy idol, lykke li, art garfunkel, beabadoobee, joji

cancer moon: clairo, kurt cobain, taylor swift, jimi hendrix, aretha franklin, mac demarco, van morrison, paul simon, courtney love (hole)

leo moon: david bowie, lana del rey, marina diamandis, hayley williams, paul mccartney, sza

virgo moon: dolly parton, madonna, al green, fiona apple, lorde, tyler joseph, pete doherty, troye sivan, hope sandoval (mazzy star), dylan minette (wallows)

libra moon: ariana grande, harry styles, bruce springsteen, vanilla ice, missy elliot, sinéad o'connor (the cranberries), olivia rodrigo

scorpio moon: the weeknd, beyoncé, avril lavigne, alex turner (arctic monkeys), johnny cash, tyler the creator, snoop dogg, morrissey (the smiths)

sagittarius moon: adele, lenny kravitz, etta james, dave grohl, mozart, travis scott, hayley kiyoko, rod stewart, carole king, hozier

capricorn moon: frank ocean, freddie mercury (queen), amy winehouse, stevie nicks, billie holiday, jesse rutherford (the neighbourhood), phoebe bridgers, mitski

aquarius moon: billie eilish, joan jett, eminem, john lennon, tom petty, jeff buckley, neil young, linda rondstadt, girl in red, kate bush

pisces moon: michael jackson, prince, elvis presley, frank sinatra, ricky martin, kanye west, robert plant (led zeppelin), joni mitchell